Racing Calendar: Containing an Account of the Plates, Matches, and Sweepstakes, Run for in Great-Britain and Ireland, &c. in the Year ..., Volume 55

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A. Grant, 1828 - Horse racing

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Page 252 - Spring, to be run for on the Tuesday in the Second October Meeting following ; and if in the October, on the Thursday in the First Spring Meeting following, В.
Page xxxii - July, to be run for on the Tuesday in the Second October Meeting following ; and if in the October, on the Thursday in the First Spring Meeting following, BC weight lOst, and to stake 200 sov.
Page xxxviii - ... subscriber before the expiration of the time of naming ; and if not so claimed, no allowance shall be made, even though the horse or mare should prove to have been untried at the time of naming.
Page xxxvii - When the riders of any horses brought out to run for any race are called upon by the person appointed to start them, to take their places for that purpose, the owner of every horse which comes up to the post shall be considered as liable to pay his whole stake, and all bets respecting such horses shall be considered as play or pay bets. 41. When any better has been adjudged to be a defaulter, by the Stewards of the Jockey Club...
Page xxviii - It was decided that it was the practice, in estimating winnings, to consider the clear sum gained only, and consequently to exempt the stake of the proprietor; the horse, therefore, which had won a sweepstakes of 46gs only, viz. two stakes of 23gs each, was not thereby disqualified for the SOI.
Page xxv - Where a plate is won by two heats, the preference of the Horses is determined by the places they get in the second heat.
Page 69 - The Ascot Stakes of 25 sov. each, 15 ft. and only 5 if declared to Messrs Weatherby, in London, by , with 200 sov.
Page xxxii - October meeting in each year, and the acceptances must be signified, or the whip resigned, before the end of the same meeting. If challenged for and accepted in the spring, to be run for on the Tuesday in the second October meeting following ; and if in the October, on the Thursday in the second spring meeting following, BC weight lOst.
Page xxvii - C's rider, after saving his distance the second heat, dismounts between the Distance-post and the end, but remounts, rides past the Ending-post, and weighs as usual ; starts and wins the third heat, and weighs, without any objection being made. A. being second the third heat, in a short time afterwards demands the subscription (not knowing till then that C's rider had dismounted), and refuses to start for the fourth heat, which B and C run for, and C wins.
Page xxvii - The opinion of the Stewards of the Jockey Club was requested by the Stewards of Rochester and Chatham Races on the following case :— For the Chatham Plate, the winner of a stake or plate in 1825 was to carry 711).

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